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Aarons Victoria |
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Titolo |
Third-Generation Holocaust Representation [[electronic resource] ] : Trauma, History, and Memory / / Victoria Aarons and Alan L. Berger |
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Evanston, Illinois : , : Northwestern University Press, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (274 pages) |
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Cultural expressions of World War II : interwar preludes, responses, memory |
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Literature, Modern - 21st century - History and criticism |
Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism |
Memory in literature |
Psychic trauma in literature |
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Influence |
Grandchildren of Holocaust survivors |
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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On the periphery : the "tangled roots" of Holocaust remembrance for the third generation -- The intergenerational transmission of memory and trauma : from survivor writing to post-Holocaust representation -- Third-generation memoirs : metonymy and representation in Daniel Mendelsohn's The Lost -- Trauma and tradition : changing classical paradigms in third-generation novelists -- Nicole Krauss : inheriting the burden of Holocaust trauma -- Refugee writers and Holocaust trauma -- "There were times when it was possible to weigh suffering" : Julie Orringer's The Invisible Bridge and the extended trauma of the Holocaust. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Victoria Aarons and Alan L. Berger show that Holocaust literary representation has continued to flourishâ€"gaining increased momentum even as its perspective shifts, as a third generation adds its voice to the chorus of post-Holocaust writers. In negotiating the complex thematic imperatives and narrative conceits of the literature of |
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these writers, this bold new work examines those structures, ironies, disjunctions, and tensions that produce a literature lamenting loss for a generation removed spatially and temporally from the extended trauma of the Holocaust. Aarons and Berger address evolving notions of “postmemory�; the intergenerational transmission of trauma; inherited memory; the psychological tensions of post-Holocaust Jewish identity; tropes of memory and the personalized narrative voice; generational dislocation and anxiety; the recurrent antagonisms of assimilation and alienation; the imaginative reconstruction of the past; and the future of Holocaust memory and representation. |
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